1. Gardner Minshew hands over his phone, and there, strutting on the screen before me, is Washington State’s Heisman-hopeful quarterback: brown hair, glorious mustache … and a jockstrap.

Nothing but a jockstrap.

He walks onto the diving board, the pool full of his teammates. Then he stops. He raises one hand slowly and cups his ear, does the same with the other. “The Hulk Hogan,” he explains, and plunges into the water, his bare ass the video’s final image.

I look up. Minshew is sitting across from me, grinning proudly.

This is his favorite story. But I didn’t ask him for his favorite story. I asked his teammates for their favorite story about him, and while they thought about it, he broke the ice. “Well,” he joked in his smoky Mississippi voice, “my favorite me story is my Jockstrap Cannonball during camp.”